Objectives/Fedora Marketing Python

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It has been suggested that Fedora take on on Marketing as a top-level objective this year to increase our exposure in the developer community. Rather than try to market to every developer everywhere, we want to focus on a specific community. This is similar to the Fedora.next strategy of separate editions — we can have bigger impact by really winning in individual areas and growing from there than we can in attempting to appeal to all people at once.

TimeFrame

This objective will take effect immediately, and continue through February
2017. First major milestone will be PyCon North America on May 27th.

Approach

There are a number of "Premier" python events, PyCons, where vast numbers of
users and contributors gather regionally. We want Fedora to have a traditional
presence here (such as Ambassadors running tables,) but also take new
approaches to engaging with contributors, such as focused events at the "PyCon
Sprints."

There are also localized meetups and usergroups within the python community,
that still draw regular contributors. This is a place where we also want to
have impact, and provide resources to local ambassadors.

Detailed Approach

Reach out to Fedora members with strong ties to Python Community.

Develop a large list of sub-communities who would find value in Fedora

Develop sets of talking points for each sub-community.

Develop generalized slide decks about using and building on Fedora for python that can be presented at meetups and user groups.

Identify existing project members who can become Ambassadors to sub-communities, and/or identify upstream sub-community ambassadors to connect with Fedora.

Gather success stories and high-profile python projects that run on or are built with Fedora, to be publicized and celebrated.